{"id":10193,"date":"2013-09-24T20:24:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T00:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motionfm.com\/?p=10193"},"modified":"2013-11-16T07:40:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T12:40:39","slug":"teddy-douglas-music-is-my-life-ep-tribe-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motionfm.com\/wp2014\/releases\/teddy-douglas-music-is-my-life-ep-tribe-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Douglas – Music Is My Life EP (Tribe Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TRIBE054_TD\"<\/a>
\nLabel:<\/strong>\tTribe Records
\nCat:<\/strong>\tTRIBE-054
\nFormat:<\/strong> digital download
\nRelease Date:<\/strong> October 14, 2013
\n  <\/p>\n

Press Release: Teddy Douglas \u2013 Music Is My Life EP \u2013 TRIBE-054<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daft Punk and Nile Rogers sure aren\u2019t the only ones who know how to get \u2018lucky\u2019 with funky guitar riffs and twenty-first-century disco beats. Teddy Douglas is a producer who has worked with the best, from Michael Jackson and Martha Wash to Erykah Badu and Ultra Nat\u00e9, working solo and as one of Baltimore\u2019s legendary Basement Boys, so he sure knows his way around a studio. Here, the world-renowned DJ-producer lets rip with a three-song EP that takes its inspiration from the era when he was first really getting into music and deejaying in the late \u201970s and early \u201980s. Just wait until you hear how mighty fine this music is.<\/p>\n

The EP opens up with \u2018Land of Love\u2019, a utopian dream of a love song that\u2019s swept away on a wave of warm strings, conga beats, piano riffs, lovely bursts of trumpet flugel horn and especially Marcell Russell\u2019s evocative and gospel soul-soaked vocals, inviting his partner to \u2018walk with me in the land of love\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Where love is what you learn and teach
\nWhere \u201cpossible\u201d is in your reach
\nWhere dancing needs no beat or sound
\nWhere melodies are all around\u2026\u2019 <\/p>\n

Are you ready to party now? Good, because \u2018My Lady\u2019 gets funky from the get-go, an uptempo paean to a lusciously dreamy partner which, like the other two tracks on the EP, is co-written by Douglas, singer Marcell Russell and his musicians.<\/p>\n

\u2018If It Feels Good\u2019 is a wonderful instrumental boogie tune that sounds a little like Grover Washington Jr, George Benson and friends kicking back and getting loose in the studio. Jazzy keyboard, bass, sax and guitar solos are layered over a conga and kick-drum beat which builds beautifully, with plenty of Philly-style horns and hi-hats for good measure. At Tribe, we only have one problem with the track: it finishes too soon!<\/p>\n

 
\nTRACKLISTING<\/strong>
\n1 – Land of Love 4:27
\n2 – My Lady 5:58
\n3 – If It Feels Good 6:35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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